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are they just using vpn c echo twitter is more popular -- vpns? twitter is more popular than it was day before. >> there were about 10 million users and the twitter traffic is actually increasing after the band. -- after the ban. people are using proxy servers to get around the ban and lots of people are able to do that. certainly that's how i managed to use twitter. i think it is fair to say there are a lot of people who are maybe not able to do that and they have been shut down. certain countries are more vulnerable to certain outages. where does turkey fall on that list? >> turkey is an intermediate case for us. on one hand you have a country that has one or two service network providers in the country who have international connections to the outside world. outages are not completely unacceptably of turkey ranks -- completely unaccepted. it is a very sophisticated group. there are more than one or two or three in turkey. the number of companies in turkey that are able to make direct international connections with the outside world is higher. a
are they just using vpn c echo twitter is more popular -- vpns? twitter is more popular than it was day before. >> there were about 10 million users and the twitter traffic is actually increasing after the band. -- after the ban. people are using proxy servers to get around the ban and lots of people are able to do that. certainly that's how i managed to use twitter. i think it is fair to say there are a lot of people who are maybe not able to do that and they have been shut down. certain...
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are they just using vpns? twitter is more popular days into this block than it was before. >> that's right. the people that are using twitter in turkey, about 10 million users, the twitter traffic has actually increased in the day after the ban. now there are a lot of people that are using vpns and proxy servers to get around it. a lot of people are being able to do that. that is how i managed to use twitter. i think it is fair to say there are a lot of people who are not able to do that and they have been shut out. >> i know certain countries are more vulnerable to internet outages. where does turkey fall on that list? >> they rank as an intermediate case for us. you have countries that have only one or two network service providers that are allowed to have international connections to the outside world. places like north korea or syria where internet outages are not completely unexpected. turkey ranks as an intermediate case. we worked with many of the providers for many years and they are a very sophisticat
are they just using vpns? twitter is more popular days into this block than it was before. >> that's right. the people that are using twitter in turkey, about 10 million users, the twitter traffic has actually increased in the day after the ban. now there are a lot of people that are using vpns and proxy servers to get around it. a lot of people are being able to do that. that is how i managed to use twitter. i think it is fair to say there are a lot of people who are not able to do that...
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millions in turkey access twitter by downloading vpn, i do not thing the prime minister's rhetoric about twitter is realistic. >> neither does the turkish president, who co-founded the ruling ak party with earled. he said in a tweet that recep tayyip erdogan's ban on twitter was unacceptable. the government shutdown youtube. they contained a raft of audio and video files, evidence of corruption in the recep tayyip erdogan government. the files appeared to be the work of an islamic and political and social movement led by a cleric golan who for years backed recep tayyip erdogan. it soured. it led to the posting of corruption files, most phone recordings illegally obtaped. recep tayyip erdogan called gola, in a parallel state within turkey. analysts say stopping the corruption files is what is driving the prime minister's online crackdown. >> in this war the networks always used social networks like youtube and twitter to publish illegal wire tapping. since december 13th turkey has illegally recorded tape scandals every day. that is the main motivation behind twitter's band. >> the time re
millions in turkey access twitter by downloading vpn, i do not thing the prime minister's rhetoric about twitter is realistic. >> neither does the turkish president, who co-founded the ruling ak party with earled. he said in a tweet that recep tayyip erdogan's ban on twitter was unacceptable. the government shutdown youtube. they contained a raft of audio and video files, evidence of corruption in the recep tayyip erdogan government. the files appeared to be the work of an islamic and...
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millions of people in turkey today have been able to access twitter by downloading vpns. therefore, i do not think that the prime minister's rhetoric about twitter is realistic. >> neither for that matter does the turkish president who co-founded the ruling ak party with erduwan. he said in a tweet that erduwan's ban on twitter was unacceptable. within a week, the government shut down youtube as well. both have contained a raft of audio and video files, evidence it has alleged of corruption in the erduwan government. the files appear to be the work of gulanists, an influential islamist movement led by a cleric who for years backed erduwan. >> relationship has soured, leading to the posting of the corruption files online starting december 17th. most consist of phone recordings illegally obtained: analysts say stopping the posting of more corruption files ahead of the march 30th local elections is what is driving the prime minister's olbermann crackdown. >> in this war, networks also used social networks like youtube and twitter as weapons to publish some illegal wiretappin
millions of people in turkey today have been able to access twitter by downloading vpns. therefore, i do not think that the prime minister's rhetoric about twitter is realistic. >> neither for that matter does the turkish president who co-founded the ruling ak party with erduwan. he said in a tweet that erduwan's ban on twitter was unacceptable. within a week, the government shut down youtube as well. both have contained a raft of audio and video files, evidence it has alleged of...
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this 16-year-old is already tech savvy enough to use a vpn that lets your computer to pretend to be somewhere else. >> it changes your virtual location. right now i'm in virginia. >> your computer is pretending to be in virginia where twitter works just fine? >> yes. >> this has been built in to the internet. it is a decentralized free-ranging global forum creating a game of wack-a-mole. every time a government tries to suppress it pops up in several other places. letting voices of dissent be heard. you can see the entire interview at newshour@pbs.org. >>> join us on air and on-line tomorrow on the newshour. senior foreign affairs correspondent continues her reporting from ukraine making her way west to the capital kiev. that's it for this edition of pbs newshour weekend. thank you for watching. pbs newshour weekend. thank you for watching. ♪ -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by louis b. and louise hersh feld, judy and josh westin. joyce b. hail, the wallach family in memory of ira wallach. bernard and irene schwartz. rosalyn p. walter. corporate
this 16-year-old is already tech savvy enough to use a vpn that lets your computer to pretend to be somewhere else. >> it changes your virtual location. right now i'm in virginia. >> your computer is pretending to be in virginia where twitter works just fine? >> yes. >> this has been built in to the internet. it is a decentralized free-ranging global forum creating a game of wack-a-mole. every time a government tries to suppress it pops up in several other places....
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competition between weibo and another company and twitter and how many people actually use twitter through vpn. talk about that landscape. there were some features weibo that predated twitter in fact and twitter adopted. >> absolutely. the first thing that we do not realize is messaging is not just messaging. by that i mean messaging is the of mobileor a lot users activities. think about how much we use messaging and gaming. the services are critical's two companies like alibaba because it allows them to lay down services for example commerce. >> paul sweeney let me ask you about accounting issues. thereaid in their filing, been a lot accounting issues with chinese companies and their account as it may not be able to examine the books because of security law. will that way against either of the ipos -- weigh against either of the ipos? >> they will look. the risk section and ipo documentation has gotten much, much more robust. a lot more risk that is illuminated. if you invest in a chinese company and even though it will be listed in the u.s., there are accounting issues and regulatory issues
competition between weibo and another company and twitter and how many people actually use twitter through vpn. talk about that landscape. there were some features weibo that predated twitter in fact and twitter adopted. >> absolutely. the first thing that we do not realize is messaging is not just messaging. by that i mean messaging is the of mobileor a lot users activities. think about how much we use messaging and gaming. the services are critical's two companies like alibaba because...
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most people know what a vpn is now and they know how to get around these blocks. if he is really serious about that kind of crackdown, he may start going after users. they may start to try to weed out who these anonymous people are who have been specifically damaging leaks onto social media sites. as far as the economy, investors seem content. stocks are bouncing back. is going to grow now, says the finance minister. see if have to wait and that situation holds up until presidential elections due in august of this year. >> thank you very much, indeed. let's switch over to france. this has been the first real nationwide 20 -- test for the socialist president. what are the main lessons? hollandery to turkey, cannot point to successful economic management. the government got a bit of a shellacking in the local elections. they held onto paris. a whole series of cities, they lost control of. they lost control of toulouse. it swung over to the right. one main lesson to take in this is that the party that benefited from the problems with his socialism is the mainstream c
most people know what a vpn is now and they know how to get around these blocks. if he is really serious about that kind of crackdown, he may start going after users. they may start to try to weed out who these anonymous people are who have been specifically damaging leaks onto social media sites. as far as the economy, investors seem content. stocks are bouncing back. is going to grow now, says the finance minister. see if have to wait and that situation holds up until presidential elections...
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there is evidence that other networks, vpns in china have all been infiltrated by the very chinese government people are trying to get around. >> eric, you have advised the president. how well do our leaders understand the power of technology? >> i think it depends. >> hillary clinton just joined twitter in june 2013. a little late to the party. >> i would disagree with that. one of the things that hillary clinton and in as secretary of state is elevate the internet in a way that we have never -- >> after google was attacked by the chinese military, misses clinton as secretary of state gave a rousing speech about the importance of imminent freedom -- internet freedom, is a symbol of democracy, to fight for the rights of minorities. i will always remember her courage in doing that. she was immediately lambasted by all the unfair it -- the authoritarian regimes. you cannot see a better example of the chinese, russian model, versus the democratic model we are so used to. >> i was in china, covering china when google left the country. i remember that speech. when it comes to google in china, have
there is evidence that other networks, vpns in china have all been infiltrated by the very chinese government people are trying to get around. >> eric, you have advised the president. how well do our leaders understand the power of technology? >> i think it depends. >> hillary clinton just joined twitter in june 2013. a little late to the party. >> i would disagree with that. one of the things that hillary clinton and in as secretary of state is elevate the internet in a...
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. -- of hours of at rival arrival, i was advised how to use a vpn to go around the censorship. when governments think they can restrict the liberties of their people, it perhaps only makes them smarter. soon as twitter was blocked, more people started taking to twitter in various ways. the sense of hope and optimism from ordinary iranians was remarkable. in the official meetings, it struck me how critical everybody was and how openly critical everybody was. that -- hadsense wrecked the economy, destroyed the country. very strong words were used. stronger than i had anticipated. it was remarkable that in each and every meeting we had, we were criticized as europeans because there are some members of our parliament who meets with o and it was a clearly sensitive issue. no members of our delegation believed this group is a serious representative one way or another, there was real concern on the iranian about such meetings taking place. it became clear -- and we were mostly interacting with the parliament of iran -- the hardliners are quite comfortable. they are self-confident and
. -- of hours of at rival arrival, i was advised how to use a vpn to go around the censorship. when governments think they can restrict the liberties of their people, it perhaps only makes them smarter. soon as twitter was blocked, more people started taking to twitter in various ways. the sense of hope and optimism from ordinary iranians was remarkable. in the official meetings, it struck me how critical everybody was and how openly critical everybody was. that -- hadsense wrecked the economy,...
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everyone in iran uses vpns and so on but did you ask officials why the use all these filters when people simply find a way around it when the foreign minister has his own twitter account, when the supreme leader has his own twitter account? did not find it a little ridiculous that they're still attempting to block people from using it easily? >> thank you. those are very important questions. on the position of the sensitivities around that, i think the iranians no matter what political side they are on or whether they are old or young, whether their students or politicians, the notion of double standards being applied to the country is very widely shared. there's a sense that the west is unfair in almost every meeting there was a reference to other countries in the region were women can't even drive. well, we are very much aware that human rights are not only a problem in iran but, of course, we care about the situation of the iranians. and so women in iran, we address those. i think the sense there's a special repertoire for iran is the sensitivity. so that's perhaps why the high commis
everyone in iran uses vpns and so on but did you ask officials why the use all these filters when people simply find a way around it when the foreign minister has his own twitter account, when the supreme leader has his own twitter account? did not find it a little ridiculous that they're still attempting to block people from using it easily? >> thank you. those are very important questions. on the position of the sensitivities around that, i think the iranians no matter what political...
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>> so what we've done, we basically have taken a samsung galaxy s 2, with virtual vpn, virtual private network. the user data is sent to servers across the globe and data is encrypted. on top of that we don't store data. even if encrypt shun is cracked we store no data. there are browsers, et cetera. they can change phone numbers as much they want. pay for bitcoin if that amenity is important. they can wipe the phone if lost and phone. snap a photo of the perpetrator and wipe awol athe data. david: does it have to be samsung? can it work for other phones as well? >> the phone we're offering for $189 is galaxy 2. it does not have to be samsung. we plan to introduce other phones to retrofit. david: how about apple's? >> some day, yeah. got to work with apple on that but we're already reaching out. cheryl: how do you compete then with verizon and at&t? i mean walmart is offering phones. there are some phones out there. how do you compete and get customers to take up your phone versus theirs? >> well short answer is we're about 90% cheaper than verizon and about 85% cheaper than at&t. righ
>> so what we've done, we basically have taken a samsung galaxy s 2, with virtual vpn, virtual private network. the user data is sent to servers across the globe and data is encrypted. on top of that we don't store data. even if encrypt shun is cracked we store no data. there are browsers, et cetera. they can change phone numbers as much they want. pay for bitcoin if that amenity is important. they can wipe the phone if lost and phone. snap a photo of the perpetrator and wipe awol athe...
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there are ways around it using vpns. the government is clear that some of these allegations, blocking the sites is like nailing jelly to the wall. i would like to hear any other way to describe how hard it is to block people. triediott, i have never nailing jelly to the wall. thank you very much. we will take a short break. when we come back, we will be joined by david to take a look at investment strategy. plenty of news from the tech sector. perspective,cro japanese consumer spending numbers that came in before.the patient's -- before expectations. ♪ >> time for today's company news. facebook is working on projects to deliver the internet to underserved areas by building drones, satellites, and lasers. they acquired a u.k. company to help. breaking news from italy's biggest bank. the bank has posted a surprise loss of 5.2 boolean euros. -- billion euros. japanares of yahoo! slumped as much as 11%. this after the company agreed to buy e excess. they will start a new service called why mobile that will share phone netw
there are ways around it using vpns. the government is clear that some of these allegations, blocking the sites is like nailing jelly to the wall. i would like to hear any other way to describe how hard it is to block people. triediott, i have never nailing jelly to the wall. thank you very much. we will take a short break. when we come back, we will be joined by david to take a look at investment strategy. plenty of news from the tech sector. perspective,cro japanese consumer spending numbers...
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there are vpn. .hings like hide my app internet intohe thinking you are somewhere else. there are so many ways of accessing them. turkey and is prime minister is doing its best. >> any since the twitter ban will affect his party and the weekend's elections? much in the so elections. local elections, erdogan want to use them and his party showing a springboard to the presidency. his i was not on the ballot in this weekend. his approval brings half plunged from 70% to below 50%. many opinion polls show his party will still do better than it did four years ago at elections in 2009 when he scored 39% of the vote. not necessarily likely to hit him. his corruption scanned and polarization in turkey and a hit on the turkish lira and stocks and bonds, this is all unnerving investors to a degree. they are certainly have taken action in selling valera -- lira and getting out of stocks and bonds. the story is not over. we'll see if they charge to ban youtube as well. >> thank you. mentioned, ihe believed him but i did not. it exists. quick the one named after a donkey. it does. he
there are vpn. .hings like hide my app internet intohe thinking you are somewhere else. there are so many ways of accessing them. turkey and is prime minister is doing its best. >> any since the twitter ban will affect his party and the weekend's elections? much in the so elections. local elections, erdogan want to use them and his party showing a springboard to the presidency. his i was not on the ballot in this weekend. his approval brings half plunged from 70% to below 50%. many...
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i would love to see china try and block vpn. if that ends up being a trend, can china or these other countries block the internet russia mark the color is correct. in china if you have the correct software programming, you can work around the firewall. american journalists have written about this at length. in it blocking in general can be circumvented right now. the internet is a very open structure by its root. the fact that makes it hard is is what makes it working around censorship. it is a dual edged sword and it is designed that way on purpose. there is an idea of a balkanized internet. canadianitizens and citizens and other people who share our values on this subject, they're not going to accept an internet where they can't access information or the government is choosing a cable or minor or what websites they can go to. americans have asked -- expectations. they have had the internet for 15 years. there is no turning back. countries like russia and china might get more involved. you could see a splintered off type of int
i would love to see china try and block vpn. if that ends up being a trend, can china or these other countries block the internet russia mark the color is correct. in china if you have the correct software programming, you can work around the firewall. american journalists have written about this at length. in it blocking in general can be circumvented right now. the internet is a very open structure by its root. the fact that makes it hard is is what makes it working around censorship. it is a...
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within hours of arrival, i was advised how to use a vpn to go around the censorship. when governments think they can restrict the liberties of their people, it perhaps only makes them smarter. in turkey, as soon as twitter was blocked, more people started taking to twitter in various ways. the sense of hope and optimism from ordinary iranians was remarkable. in the official meetings, it struck me how critical everybody was and how openly critical everybody was. of ahmadinejad. there was a sense that -- had had wrecked the economy, destroyed the country. very strong words were used. stronger than i had anticipated. it was remarkable that in each and every meeting we had, we were criticized as europeans because there are some members of our parliament who meets with the mko and it was a clearly sensitive issue. no members of our delegation believed this group is a serious representative one way or another, there was real concern on the iranian about such meetings taking place. it became clear -- and we were mostly interacting with the parliament of iran -- the hardliner
within hours of arrival, i was advised how to use a vpn to go around the censorship. when governments think they can restrict the liberties of their people, it perhaps only makes them smarter. in turkey, as soon as twitter was blocked, more people started taking to twitter in various ways. the sense of hope and optimism from ordinary iranians was remarkable. in the official meetings, it struck me how critical everybody was and how openly critical everybody was. of ahmadinejad. there was a sense...